HOP DREAMS: Developer in process of building Canada’s largest hop farm in Kamloops

Hops Canada founder Joey Bedard (left) and TIB Coun. Howard Campbell on the farm beside the North Thompson River. The band is two-thirds owner of the brokerage and farm now under development. (Cam Fortems/KTW)

Standing amid a barren forest of poles laid out in a grid and topped by cables, Joey Bedard interrupts a tour of his farm to take a call.

It’s Sanjay, from India. He wants hops, the cones used for centuries both to preserve beer and give it complex taste.